The magnificent Poland Spring Resort, including the Poland Spring House, Mansion House, hilltop grounds and golf course, earned a world-class reputation as a luxurious destination for summer rest and relaxation in the so-called “gilded age” from about 1860 to 1900. But a couple decades later, Poland Spring made a bold attempt at becoming a winter […]
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Skier strikes tree on northern Vermont trail, dies
EAST BURKE, Vt. — State police say a woman who was skiing in Vermont’s remote Northeast Kingdom has struck a tree and died. It happened Friday afternoon at Q Burke Mountain. State police say the 27-year-old woman from St. Johnsbury left the groomed portion of a trail and struck a tree. After the woman failed […]
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Embrace winter in Auburn this weekend
AUBURN — Love being outside in winter? For more than a decade, the city’s annual Winter Festival has provided families an opportunity to play outside — skiing, sliding, snowshoeing, biking, sledding — and, of course, finishing the day with a cup of hot chocolate. The three-day festival gets underway this Friday with the opening of […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Chicken-skin doughnuts?: Chefs take apres-ski flavors to new level
What’s Arabian barbecue doing at a Nordic setting? Appeasing a new sports segment: gourmets on skis. Foodies and skiers have not always been bedfellows. But up at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort, the two are getting cozy. So much so that Clayton Norris, owner of Arabian barbecue food truck C.N. Shawarma, created a hashtag: #foodieloafer. “A Sugarloafer […]
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Nordic skiing: Nate McNutt, Julia Dillon lead Oxford Hills sweep
NORWAY — Julia Dillon won the Oxford Hills Viking Classic on her home course Wednesday at Roberts Farm, but the most grueling part of the race was run Tuesday. That’s when Dillon and her Oxford Hills teammates got out of class in the afternoon, made the short journey through town, arrived at the trail and […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Satellite Ski Museum planned for Bethel
The Ski Museum of Maine is expanding. Next spring the Museum plans to establish a satellite museum in Bethel, according to a press release. Like the museum’s primary site in Kingfield, the Bethel location will exhibit artifacts, photographs, artwork and documents taken from Maine’s rich alpine and nordic ski heritage. The Oxford County region of […]
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Sunday River receives $5 million investment from parent company
NEWRY — Sunday River Ski Resort will receive $5 million to use toward capital improvements this year, resort spokesperson Darcy Morse said Monday afternoon. Morse said that the $5 million was given to Sunday River as part of a new investment from their parent company, Boyne Resorts. Boyne Resorts has invested over $40 million in […]
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Sugarloaf is Maine’s last resort to close
CARRABASSET VALLEY — Maine’s Sugarloaf is closing out a ski season that was extended thanks to heavy winter snowfall and cool spring temperatures. Spokesman Ethan Austin said the resort is once again the last one to close for the season in Maine. The season wraps up with a final day of skiing and snowboarding on […]